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Seymour An Introduction (2015)

"Seymour: An Introduction" is a captivating documentary film made in 2015, directed by Ethan Hawke. This introspective piece revolves around the life and talent of Seymour Bernstein, an extraordinary classical pianist turned teacher. The film delves into Bernstein's profound beliefs and personal life, revealing his insights on creativity and the artistic journey. With its intimate and thoughtful approach, "Seymour: An Introduction" gives viewers a glimpse into the world of a remarkable musician. If you're interested in exploring the sounds and music associated with this documentary, you can both play and download them here.

A beauty that is answered by something deep within you.
A black hole that was resonating
A conception of what it's supposed to sound,
A pulse that never stops.
A reminder of our own potential
A safe place disconnected from,
A silver tea set,
A TV,
A velvet smoking jacket.
A Zen philosopher put it this way:
About nervousness and Sarah Bernhardt.
About the correlation between a musician and a person,
Absolutely scared to death
After a while, when I was adult enough
After the music room in the Palace of Versailles.
Again, again, this passage.
Ah.
All right, good.
All right, so do you see this slowly gliding towards that E
All soft.
Allay the horror
Along with your emotions inside.
An extension of ourselves,
And a pianist,
And actually, now with my 88 concert tour,
And allow the music to reveal its own beauty,
And and so and she had students there
And another delivery would take place:
And as to whether that's a good thing or bad thing,
And asked if I would teach his son.
And at this one dinner, Seymour helped me
And borrowed a grand piano from them.
And deepest understandings of ourselves.
And demonstrate what it's like to practice
And don't just say what they expect you to say.
And equating that with any kind of financial success are just
And everything comes together and makes a lot more sense.
And everything was covered with mist.
And has something to say as a performer
And he chose a motto, Throughout all music,
And he pedaled with his right foot.
And he said, Which one is the best?
And he told her,
And here we go again.
And his mother, during the lessons,
And I I should say so.
And I arranged a farewell concert
And I arranged a farewell concert
And I b I blocked it out.
And I couldn't wait to see what was in this book.
And I cried the whole day.
And I didn't even tell my mother.
And I do just the opposite.
And I got some peanuts and whatever there was to eat,
And I heard the whole of reality singing together
And I immediately felt kind of safe around him
And I remember that ride.
And I requisitioned a truck with six Korean laborers
And I said, I'll do it for you.
And I said, Sheila, could I speak to you in the back room?
And I talk recently when I've been playing the Chopin Etudes,
And I think that came across in the classes.
And I went outside, and I was eating the peanuts.
And I woke up at 5:00 in the morning,
And I'm going to supervise it.
And if the universe is resonating on the note B flat
And in front of the door,
And into this, you know,
And it evidently had been tamed by the guys there.
And it was a fawn,
And it's like, you can't just sit down and play it.
And made me happier, fulfilling.
And many people said to me what you said.
And my three sisters were all sleeping.
And not just for commercial purposes.
And now go for it!
And now the bass just rips me apart.
And now the darkness of the left hand.
And once you experience ecstasy,
And one night, Glenn Gould called his friend and said,
And one night, it came to an end.
And play the coda, which is the end of the piece,
And possessed of a clear understanding
And resolutions.
And Sarah Bernhardt took her hand like this and said,
And Schubert and Brahms choose to create
And sent us on a concert tour.
And she said,
And snuggled in my palm for the peanuts.
And some of the guys would cry.
And somehow the relationship dissolves.
And something we can control.
And sometimes he rattled the chair
And sometimes I think that
And spotlights blind me
And technically, he had few equals.
And that's the note that Beethoven
And the ambulances were following us,
And the guys around me started to faint
And the master musician you are.
And the music room was patterned
And the next month, Clifford was knighted.
And the temperature was zero
And the unpredictability of the social world
And then counterclockwise.
And then gliding away?
And then I just fell in love with him.
And then I tell people, you know,
And then it'll sound perfect.
And then Schubert writes a sonata like that.
And there are musicians who are monsters, yeah.
And there it was in my diary.
And there was the Serenade by Schubert.
And there were other other mitigating circumstances
And they put the piano on cinder blocks this high.
And this one is a longer idea.
And we depend upon the deity for salvation.
And we had to go walk 20 miles
And when you apply that
And you and you didn't tell them what I told you
And you exist in some safer place
And you find out
And you just say really what's in your heart.
And you're drawn from the beginning to the end.
As a teacher?
As a universal language.
At a slow tempo.
At the 92nd Street Y.
Avoid excess of analysis,
Because human factor of putting everything together.
Because I remember body bags.
Because if you can make people
Because music is the art most sacredly capable
Because of the predictability of music,
Because you can't prove certain
Because you try to practice it,
Beethoven stopped, said, Men don't cry.
Better.
Between your musical self and your personal self
Boy, he was so terrible to pianists,
Bring up.
But before I answer that question, we have to
But by trying to gain more things.
But do you feel on some level you were just
But don't leave the key.
But don't you do it through acting?
But don't you think somebody who's very talented
But he can't get in.
But he describes motions, and it connects
But he gave me a rave review.
But he tried to subjugate it.
But I can ima show you.
But I didn't know what was authentic.
But I don't know how to do it.
But I firmly believe that it's within us.
But I had never been away from home at that time.
But I know an intimate friend of Glenn Gould's.
But in music, there is the language
But it's not really like that.
But the eighth notes never stop, see?
But those people over there at Juilliard,
But what peeves me about him
But when you get very emotional, as you just were,
But, Seymour, you were a great player.
But, you know,
By Schumann for his beloved Clara.
By the name of Kenneth Gordon.
By the way, the same thing occurs in music.
Callas was this archetypal shamanic force.
Can one day say something,
Can't be confirmed.
Clifford Curzon played so soft.
Clifford Curzon was one of the great English pianists.
Clockwise very slowly
Concerning the use of the soft pedal.
Craft is necessary.
D La d
Dear Majesty, we in America
Did you hear how beautiful it sounds?
Dispelling loneliness and discontent,
Do I have permission to touch you?
Do it. Play the opening.
Do you There is something
Do you connect that note to the next note?
Do you know anybody who has been living in one room apartment
Do you know how many men tried to subdue the feminine in them?
Do you know what he did?
Does it say to do that?
Don't always play keys to the key bed.
Don't let go of this E...
Don't you have a responsibility?
Don't you think that's significant?
During all of this time of giving workshops,
Each soundboard has different wood.
Easy, easy.
Empty out. Empty it out completely.
Especially when you play Mozart and Schubert.
Even though I can see them, they can't touch me anymore.
Even though it's a staccato...
Every day, practically, when I was there,
Every piano is like a person.
Every tree is different.
Everyone laughed when he said that.
Everything became clearer
Exactly.
Extremely selfish, horrible people.
Float your right arm more.
For 57 years?
For anyone to study an instrument
For him, the only important thing
For his concertos
For his show, you think?
For me, personally,
For me, the difference between religion and music
For months and months until you can perform it like this.
For perfection.
For the last, like, five years or so,
For their selfish reasons.
From New York to Hamburg wherever I played.
From New York to London,
From New York to Paris,
From the friend you are
From which adults can learn.
From which you can judge everything else.
General education.
Gifted children, for example,
Glenn Gould, for example.
Good.
Good.
Good.
Good.
Got it.
Guess who my father is.
Halfway down.
Harmony and dissonance.
Harmony, predictability,
Has a responsibility that transcends
Has commanded me
Have been some of the worst things I've done.
Having a fear of memory slips.
He blindfolded me once down here.
He crossed his left leg over the right,
He finished playing, and they were all crying.
He finished playing, and they were all crying.
He has three daughters and a son
He has to go to school whether he likes it or not.
He he he had the feminine in him,
He he he had the feminine in him,
He plays to himself. That's it.
He said, Classical music? Are you kidding?
He said, Five.
He said, I don't care.
He said, Oh, my son is very bright.
He said, Well, come to London.
He sat me down, and he went from piano to piano,
He was a total neurotic mess
He was so extraordinary.
He was so famous for Bach, right?
He wouldn't play so well.
He wouldn't practice.
He's infusing the music with his own eccentric nature.
He's one of those ravens.
He's picking at the translucent dome,
He's playing this for the first time in the world...
He's the model of what you should be,
Her name was Mildred Boos.
Hiding in the music,
His B flat is not our B flat.
His music.
Horrid. Horrors.
How can I be sure that I'm gonna get there?
How do you like that?
How much is it to rent?
How the music is supposed to feel
How we stay alive.
Huge pieces in B flat?
Hush.
I addressed it Buckingham Palace, London.
I always knew which one was the best.
I asked him if I could study with him.
I asked him, how old is his son?
I believe that you won't enjoy the resolution
I call it a spiritual reservoir.
I came to the reception,
I can look around, and I can see that
I can't It's too good to be true.
I chose it for the rental.
I could touch the sky.
I create a translucent dome around myself,
I crossed my left leg over the right. '
I decided to confide with him
I did actually have an experience
I did exercises, which I strongly advise you to do.
I didn't used to be integrated.
I didn't used to feel this way.
I didn't want to face it.
I don't call it God.
I don't have never, ever in my life
I don't think I ever practiced, do you?
I feel like composer must be happy in heaven.
I felt inadequate as a pianist.
I felt insulted.
I felt that he couldn't say
I got terrified.
I got up early on a Sunday morning,
I had blocks whenever I was on the stage
I had te terrible blocks.
I hadn't encountered people in my life
I hadn't looked at that diary for 20 years.
I hated the commercial aspect of it.
I have a wonderful answer.
I have been
I have to be by myself
I have to get there in advance.
I have to listen so carefully and so
I have to tell you that our art is totally predictable.
I have to tell you the truth.
I haven't changed.
I heard everything in creation...
I I heard him play in Carnegie Hall several times.
I joined a physical movement course.
I just keep the intensity going.
I just think that
I keep hitting, and I keep overshooting the runway here.
I kept a diary.
I kind of knew that that was phony,
I knew immediately
I knew that, uh, the superficial things
I knew this was gonna happen. Go ahead.
I lived there for a year.
I looked at her very sincerely,
I love to, uh, ascribe
I love you dearly, but, you know,
I mean, do you think it's a coincidence
I mean, I hadn't heard it.
I mean, it was a longer conversation,
I mentioned Schumann before.
I moved my head
I must have been killed.
I never dreamt
I never felt that I had a good opening sentence,
I never moved a piano in my life.
I opened it up, and the letter said,
I opened it up, and the letter said,
I poured it into you.
I remember seeing him once in Carnegie Hall.
I remember that I became aware
I remember your Alice Tully Hall recital very well.
I said to her one day,
I said, Can we give a concert for the guys here?
I said, Five?
I said, It's unthinkable
I said, Now, this is so strange.
I said, You know, I have a feeling
I saw a little nose appear.
I see my colleagues who have major careers
I still remember it vividly.
I think almost all the pianists
I thrive on solitude.
I told Clifford Curzon about that.
I tried not to cry. I knew this was gonna happen.
I try to actually educate people.
I turned it to eight.
I turned the page,
I was led a very sheltered life.
I was out of sorts with people, with my parents.
I was with a wonderful violinist
I would play the orchestral accompaniment
I wouldn't have shown it if it wasn't available.
I'll actually play it slowly first.
I'll teach you for six months.
I'm exaggerating, right, right?
I'm hearing you, Michael.
I'm looking at myself, and I'm saying,
I'm not aware that I'm listening to Bach.
I'm not gonna say, but it's completely different.
I'm not so sure that a major career
I'm only aware I'm listening to Glenn Gould.
I'm sitting here because I'm out of the uh, the spotlight.
I'm sorry.
I'm very close to being one.
I'm walking on 76th Street,
If he didn't act so eccentric,
If I don't have a specific religious calling,
If I open in in advance...
If it's not for material gain,
If the heavenly constellations
If you feel inadequate as a musician,
If you love me,
If you would paint a chrysanthemum,
If you're gonna relate it to this NASA thing...
In a never ending cycle of fulfillment.
In all of music!
In April, 57 years ago...
In contemplating my own connection to music,
In her living room, on every table
In order to sort out all the thoughts
In terms of length and scope
In the form of a deity.
In those days, you know,
Inhale.
Is an even pulse,
Is because the composer didn't leave any markings.
Is geared to make you think about success.
Is how softly the piano will play.
Is that music, like God, is invisible.
Is that the answers always seem
Is that through my mystical education,
Is that you isolate yourself more,
Is there some connection
Is this a Hamburg Steinway?
Is to inspire and encourage
Is what I'm after.
Is, religion requires faith.
Isn't drawn to music.
Isn't that so? So
Isn't there some responsibility
It came right up to me
It can never be the same.
It didn't help, though.
It has conflicts and pleasures,
It is this kind of innocence
It it seems to me, in America particularly,
It seated easily 250 people.
It took all that time to feel good,
It was a great experience in my life.
It was the mind set that I developed as a musician.
It was unbelievable.
It would have been the same trauma to me.
It'll just be rolled up.
It's gonna be even worse.
It's gonna be up in the rotunda.
It's in octaves, you see?
It's just a decoration of it.
It's just impossibly beautiful.
It's mine, and yet I find it's one of my favorite pianos.
It's moving your arms this way.
It's never going to stop.
It's so beautiful that it's almost impossible to practice,
It's so beautiful.
It's so gorgeous.
It's sort of like someone doing this
It's sort of like someone doing this
It's unbelievable, huh?
It's very warm,
It's yours for however long you want it.
Its voice discovering in it
Jackson Pollock and Marlon Brando
Jesus, Moses, Bu#ha
Just couldn't take that anymore?
Just playing life more beautifully
Just, like, the way I act, it's all music.
Laddie, I'm so sorry to disillusion you,
Learning all this stuff.
Let us shed our guilt
Let us try.
Let's see, so That's right.
Let's see. Where is that?
Like you're jogging through the park.
Like, everything that I do is somehow related to music.
Like, patting for comfort.
Like, well, we're doing this thing here, and this is good,
Look at one for ten years
Madam, I don't mean to be presumptuous,
Makes you able to listen to other people.
Maria was the rather ordinary woman
Maybe you don't want to be doing this.
Metaphysical realm that I believe
Michael, you didn't know I was going to bring this, did you?
Mm mm. See, one of them just ends.
More angry at the music world in years years past.
More than anyone in my own profession had been able to.
Most people don't tap that resource
Most people should be a lot more nervous, he said to me,
Motivated by a love of music
Mrs. Boos was a spiritualist.
Music is just, like, my being.
Music is most divine
Music offers no quarter for compromise,
Music speaks concordantly
Music will never change.
Music, therefore, has often been referred to
My friend Tony Zito invited me over to dinner,
My most terrifying secret,
My parents were sleeping on the second floor,
My patroness.
My teacher, Clifford Curzon
Nervousness is part of what we do.
No chair could be low enough for him.
No excuses,
No good.
No shoddy workmanship.
No, I didn't. I
No, I haven't changed.
No, I think you have, actually, but...
No, the second notes are too loud.
No, this is this is a New York Steinway.
No.
Nobody no two people ever do the same.
Nobody's gonna listen to classical music here.
Not bad. Not bad.
Not just for music
Not only my hero.
Not trying to play better
Not...
Now crescendo.
Now disappear.
Now do it all. Do it all.
Now here comes one of the biggest climaxes
Now inhale.
Now less.
Now play the left hand first with the soft pedal.
Now you have to minimize it.
Now, first of all, that was exquisite.
Now, that's making a real contribution to your audience.
Now, there are three statements.
Now, whether my letter did it
Of course not.
Of course not.
Of course not.
Of course.
Of helping us get in touch
Of his Fantasie Opus 17.
Of musical structure or historical facts.
Of the beloved.
Of the God within.
Of the music that is creating the whole universe.
Of the music that you're playing.
Of the reasons for practicing,
Of the transcendent beauty
Of walking across the stage,
Offer us visual proof of this order,
Often project deep musical feeling
Often, doing my art the best
Oh, how wonderful. See? Free.
Oh, it's just heaven.
Oh, it's the most beautiful piece I ever heard, I told her.
Oh, my poor dear.
Oh, now you're sounding better
Oh, now, a dream.
Oh, that's good. So it'll just be rolled up?
Oh, this is the most beautiful piano.
Okay, first of all, as you know, pitch has changed
Okay, now in time, in time.
Okay, now, before I discuss that further...
Okay, now, when the orchestra comes in,
Okay, very, very good.
Okay, you have the most noble posture when you play.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay. All right. Very good.
Okay. Okay, and now play.
Okay. Okay.
Om.
On some level, though you were nervous on the stage, you were
On the front lines.
On the NASA website, they discovered
On the note B flat, 57 octaves below middle C.
On the piano.
Once I called my career to an end,
One day,
One day, a beautiful white envelope arrived
One day, a Dr. Kimmelman called me up
One of the four subjects was music.
One of the most important things I would say
One of the ways in which philosophers have said
One quiet note
One was Maria, and the other was Callas.
Only to be cast down,
Or or the the business side of this?
Or whether it was a coincidence
Or whether they don't like, you know,
Or whether they're doing it in Carnegie Hall
Or whether they're doing it on a stage or whatever.
Otherwise, you get arrested.
Our culture deliberately drives people to focus outside
Our social world is unpredictable.
Outside are flying all the ravens,
Over the bar now.
Pedal, pedal.
Piano Sonata, String Quartet, and Piano Trio
Picture this.
Play in a way that I cou
Play that. Play that just...
Played for a secret eavesdropper.
Played on a piano like this.
Prenatally, I guess I knew immediately
Really good at one thing, and then it should be better.
Really, you're inadequate?
Really?
Really? Were you there?
Resentment?
Resides in our talent and whatever talent there is.
Right?
Right?
Right?
Right?
Right? I mean, that's a man doing this.
Right? Right here?
Right.
Right.
Right.
Same. Now go softer.
Schumann married Clara when he was 25.
See those two notes?
See, every note can't be passionate.
See, I think it appeals to the universal language of music.
See, move over.
See, the most important thing
See? It will not right.
See? Look. He was playing like this.
Seymour Bernstein triumphs at the piano.
Seymour showed me what a musician could be.
Seymour was shipped off to Korea.
Seymour went merrily on his way to the 20 miles.
She believed in contacting all the masters:
She brings me this beautiful sculpture of my cat.
She gave me the key to this ten room Tudor mansion.
She had a religion called I Am.
She has a little pad, and she's sketching.
She sponsored my debuts in Europe.
She was 16.
She went to her dressing room
Since the time of Schubert.
Singing ecstatically the name of God.
Slaves of status,
So at the age of 50, I didn't tell anyone,
So Clifford Curzon only tried
So did you think in the end
So even though it's a staccato
So have to remember to keep up the sound here.
So I concluded
So I created one for tonight, and here it is.
So I thought he was going to another one,
So I wasn't gonna let it go at that.
So I went to a Korean MP school
So if you don't understand technique,
So if you voice a chord...
So it can control them.
So just learning to listen to yourself
So my mother heard the piano playing.
So now I'm in my 40s, I think,
So now, I can't screw the chair down to demonstrate,
So one day, I penned a letter to the queen.
So one Sunday, I took it out,
So some people just whimper away here.
So somebody gave us an old upright piano when I was six.
So something has to go.
So that I can't see your wonderful faces.
So that's another thing about your aesthetic
So that's another thing about your aesthetic
So the most successful things I've done
So the soundboard vibrates.
So the story
So which hand should be more I think the right hand.
So you see, he did it on purpose.
Some stability
Somebody asked me about, um, taking piano lessons, right?
Someone who may be the closest to you
Something in me said,
Stage fright.
Struggling recently
Suddenly an order came through.
Suffer terribly.
Suppose a child doesn't feel like it,
Sure, what's your answer now, all these years later?
Ten times better than the last time I heard.
That a boy.
That a great many artists are not nervous enough.
That doesn't actually make people happy.
That eventually music and life will interact
That he had to play with major orchestras.
That he's serious about music.
That I felt before and during a concert.
That I've definitely am very aware of,
That it is a language of feeling.
That it makes them neurotic.
That it's the greatest compliment to someone
That life that's how life is.
That Little Harry can't go to school.
That made me crawl the wall with nervousness.
That music teachers can do for their pupils
That she was falling in love with me.
That talent is it.
That the real essence of who we are
That there was something inauthentic to build on.
That was ever written.
That was the last public concert I ever played.
That we were assigned to.
That were serious about music in the way
That when my practicing went well,
That will make them lead a happier life.
That with my own two hands,
That you found your creative identity
That you've composed for each concert.
That your mother gave this to me?
That's a hard thing.
That's exactly what I'm doing.
That's how life is. Can't escape it.
That's it.
That's just gorgeous.
That's just technique.
That's there forever.
That's thousands and thousands of hours of of practice.
That's very good. Now play the opening slur.
That's what made me the special person in her life.
That's, like, a thou
The anxiety of it...
The contrast between
The contrast is so great
The doorbell would ring,
The end of this piece is very problematic.
The energy gets pulled right out of the keyboard.
The escapement level is halfway down.
The guys came down with pneumonia,
The guys wouldn't let us off the stage.
The help cometh from the Lord within.
The idea that you should keep composing.
The important thing to learn about the soft pedal
The keyboard was up here.
The lieutenant sent for special gabardine uniforms for us
The Martha Baird Rockefeller grant to study with him.
The Moonlight Sonata, right?
The most important thing
The reason it's so problematic
The review came out the next day.
The same piano. Wow.
The Schubert First Movement lives in.
The second notes have to be softer.
The sound seems
The struggle is what makes the art form.
The the whole gang there.
The Tully Hall had just opened.
The unbelievable attainment of art
The young actress was just amazed at the trembling hand,
Their biggest monumental masterpieces
Then he sent this music to Clara,
Then here's one of my favorite places.
Then music must be its aural manifestation.
Then the soundboard, the wood is alive.
Then we've got to be scientific.
Then you get closer to the creative process
There are dissonances in harmony
There is a great contempt for craft.
There is no separation
There it is.
There sounds the colorful dream of the earth,
There was a little bit of a, uh, you know...
There was a war between these two beings.